Week 12 - Rehab,rehab bloody rehab! - Day 84 of 112

Not!

Ice. Ice and more ice. That is the way of things at the moment. Looks like I will be back at the pool this week trying to shake off this injury. Did I come back too quickly? I do not think so but the fact that I am typing this with a freezer back of ice on my thigh rather than stretching having completed another run tells me otherwise. I need to focus not on the goals now but rather the race and give myself the best possible chance of getting on the start line. First thing will be to get a rehab plan and stick to this religiously - stretching, strengthening, icing etc. At least if I make it to the start my experience and the base over the last 11 weeks should be able to take me through to a reasonable time. 

Mentally I am not in a great place. Motivation when injury strikes is now an issue. The longer that I have been away from the schedule the more that I am losing focus. I sat in bed this morning more or less resigned to the fact that I would not be running this week and what I found odd was that I was not climbing the wall or annoyed. I am now accepting of the situation. maybe this is a good thing as I can concentrate on recovery.  I have now missed the half marathon and a 20 miler today. The chances of doing the last 22 miler next week is remote given I have not run more that 3 miles off the bat in what will be 3 weeks at the end of next week. Not looking good. I think that I may need to scrap the schedule and work out a build up that will take me from the end of this week to the marathon. There seems little point in tapering as I have been doing that for the last 2 weeks. I may drop an e mail to Marathon talk and see if they can give me some advice. 

Had a swim this evening and had an enjoyable swim out. I am going to try and get a swim in every day to keep the fitness up. This will give me a focus and something to aim for. Lets see if I can do it for the next 6 days. Then it is off down to Campbeltown which has a great 25m pool where I can train and do some cycling. On Saturday I watched a number of Total Immersion swim videos on You Tube and tried out some of the exercises today. Head position, keeping the hands relaxed and entry into the water level with the shoulders are the main things that I picked up. I did not feel so tired at I swam for 28 minutes without much of a break. 

The numbers - 28 minutes - 1440 yards